"He is my first love," Sarah Michelle Geller—best known for her role in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"—has said of her beau since 1997 (husband since 2002) Freddie Prinze, Jr. The couple is about to take the next step in their relationship, as they announced in April that they are expecting their first child in the fall.

Their Mexican wedding, in September 2002 just after the couple co-starred in the summer movie "Scooby Doo," was marked by natural disasters—first, Hurricane Hernan sent the party indoors, then a 4.6 earthquake struck just as guests were leaving. But that drama did not spill over into the couple's marriage, which is marked by privacy and quality time with their dogs, not Hollywood glitz and constant partying.

As Prinze told People magazine in 2005, there's no big secret to his happy marriage. "It's not a magic trick," he said. "We just respect each other."